March Madness - Final Four is set

Also - kind of sucks both of our blue blood programs blew 19 point leads this year in the tourney.
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I pray Jason Capel becomes your coach


Also it's weird. That loss sucked for a week but it's really never stuck with me like I feared it would. I bet it would have been worse had y'all won it all. But it's really not an overly painful memory
 
aGDevil2k said:
Also - kind of sucks both of our blue blood programs blew 19 point leads this year in the tourney.

I pray Jason Capel becomes your coach


Also it's weird. That loss sucked for a week but it's really never stuck with me like I feared it would. I bet it would have been worse had y'all won it all. But it's really not an overly painful memory
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Denial ain't just a river in Africa.
 
Bigs23 said:
That's also symptomatic of denial.
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I get it from his perspective. As a fan, you have to move on from devastating losses. At the time, I felt crushed from the championship loss in 2016. Now, I can kind view 2016 and 2017 together as an incredible couple of years, culminating in a national title. As a UNC fan, I relish those wins against K in his final season. But if I was a Duke fan, I wouldn't want to linger on disappointing losses.
 
wmheel1287 said:
Hurley is, to me, far worse than ratface. Hurley is disrespectful to the game and everyone associated with it.
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Hurley won't be able to cash in on his success like k did.

I don't see him getting the Olympics gig, the vast array of endorsements, the book deals and the overall adoration from the uninformed general public.

He's not as skilled at manipulating his image as k was. He's more of an outward facing asshole.
 
PTOHeel said:
I get it from his perspective. As a fan, you have to move on from devastating losses. At the time, I felt crushed from the championship loss in 2016. Now, I can kind view 2016 and 2017 together as an incredible couple of years, culminating in a national title. As a UNC fan, I relish those wins against K in his final season. But if I was a Duke fan, I wouldn't want to linger on disappointing losses.
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I think UNC fans overestimated how "important" K was to most Duke fans. He was appreciated, but also many of us knew he was pretty well past his prime as far as being a coach. Amazing coach with an amazing career no doubt. And "omg it ended K" was not even on my metrics...I didn't care if that was his last game or not. I didn't like losing a final 4. But in terms of painful losses, 1999, 2004 and 2025 hurt WAY more for way longer, because those years each of those teams were the best and should have won the title. Ultimately that's what sticks. I really thought losing to UNC in the Final 4 would have been like the worst thing ever....lingering for years. But it didn't. It sucked for a few days no doubt. It was really helped by the choke in the final game, absolutely.

And some of it is that I am grown from really focusing on sports as being the nexus of my well-being and concerns. So wins and losses alike are more fleeting as far as emotional impact. A few days, sure. Then I move on either way cause life happens. The only two games that ever have lingered for years have been 99 and 04 final fours.
 
Bigs23 said:
Hurley won't be able to cash in on his success like k did.

I don't see him getting the Olympics gig, the vast array of endorsements, the book deals and the overall adoration from the uninformed general public.

He's not as skilled at manipulating his image as k was. He's more of an outward facing asshole.
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UConn also just doesn't have the fan base size, it doesnt seem.

And it's weird they never get the love from ESPN given that's ESPN's back door school. Maybe it's that it is really a big ole commuter school with no identity...I dont know. Or maybe it's because they do nothing else well. So they feel like Gonzaga more than a Kentucky. But no doubt, they are the best program of the 2000s.
 
aGDevil2k said:
I think UNC fans overestimated how "important" K was to most Duke fans. He was appreciated, but also many of us knew he was pretty well past his prime as far as being a coach. Amazing coach with an amazing career no doubt. And "omg it ended K" was not even on my metrics...I didn't care if that was his last game or not. I didn't like losing a final 4. But in terms of painful losses, 1999, 2004 and 2025 hurt WAY more for way longer, because those years each of those teams were the best and should have won the title. Ultimately that's what sticks. I really thought losing to UNC in the Final 4 would have been like the worst thing ever....lingering for years. But it didn't. It sucked for a few days no doubt. It was really helped by the choke in the final game, absolutely.

And some of it is that I am grown from really focusing on sports as being the nexus of my well-being and concerns. So wins and losses alike are more fleeting as far as emotional impact. A few days, sure. Then I move on either way cause life happens. The only two games that ever have lingered for years have been 99 and 04 final fours.
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That last game production confirmed to the world that k was a Christ-like figure in Derm.

Maybe it was just the media all those years but it at least seemed like the fans were all-in on the k worship.
 
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